Chance
Benjamin (Grade 10 / Northfield School of Arts and Technology) Originally published March 2004Chance told me I was trapped
Chance told me it was true
Chance didn’t tell me what was this or what was that
Chance left that to you an opportune glance showed me the walls and showed me the hands that were building them a lucky guess found the window, and that guess showed me more there, stuck to the bars, were the hands I had seen before.
Luck showed me the prison I’d found
Chance showed me how I’d built it
Opportunity knocked once or twice but the hands that locked
The door wouldn’t get it
Chance told me I was trapped
Chance told me it was true
It didn’t tell me what was this or what was that
Chance left that to you.
She wondered if there was somebody home,
She figured that someone was there
She realized that someone was all on their own
And found the bars that chance knew were there
I saw the hands reach out through the bars
I saw the hands that reached from the cold
The hands and the body attached to it
Dying for somebody to hold
Chance told me I was trapped
Chance told me it was true
Now I know that that’s this and this is that
And I’m all alone with this baneful view.
You who know nothing, you who wish more
I can show you your truth, but first
Tell me this, who is the lucky one…
Me? Or you